Kanye West sued over sample for "Girls, Girls, Girls (Remix)"

More lawsuit drama for Kanye West. After settling a lawsuit with singer Syl Johnson a few weeks ago, Kanye West has been hit with another claim of illegal sampling. As AllHipHop.com points out, Yeezy has been sued by Robert Poindexter, of the soul band the Persuaders, for using an uncleared sample of the 1972 hit “Trying Girls Out” on his remix of “Girls Girls Girls” featured on the mixtape Freshman Adjustment 2. Poindexter seeks $500,000 in damages and argues that ‘Ye was aware of the sample not being cleared for the track, since he used a cleared version of it for the original version of “Girls Girls Girls” on Jay-Z’s 2001 album The Blueprint.

It remains to be seen if this will even make a case since the mixtape was not commercially released, but Poindexter highlights that Kanye “willfully infringed the copyright for private and financial gain by selling and distributing an untold amount of physical and digital copies of the illegal version (mixed tapes/street albums) to the general public on internet downloads and through the mail.”

Source: Rolling Stone